Ecologist magazine founder Teddy Goldsmith dies

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Teddy Goldsmith, the environmentalist and founder of the Ecologist magazine, died on August 21, aged 80.

Goldsmith, brother of billionaire James, launched the Ecologist in 1970 with his first issue carrying a cover image of a man suffocating under a pile of rubble.

As the decade continued the magazine became known for carrying few pictures, instead focusing on long written articles more in keeping with an academic journal than a consumer magazine.

In 1972, Goldsmith dedicated an entire issue of the magazine to a ‘Blueprint for Survival’, a green manifesto that inspired the foundation of the Ecology Party (later becoming the Green Party) and which kept the magazine financially afloat.